Philo'theus COCCINUS
2. COCCINUS, patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE, a man of great and deserved renown.
He was probably born in the beginning of the 14th century, and early took the monastic habit.
After living for a considerable time as a monk in, and afterwards superior of, the convent of St. Laura on Mount Sinai, he was appointed archbishop of Heracleia (before 1354). In 1355 he was employed by the emperor John Cantacuzenus, in bringing about a reconciliation between Michael, the son, and John Palaeologus, the son-in-law of the emperor; and in the same year he was chosen patriarch of Constantinople, in the place of Callistus, who, however, recovered his see after John Palaeologus had taken possession of Constantinople. Callistus, however, died soon afterwards, and now Philotheus was once more placed on the patriarchal chair, which post he occupied with great dignity till 1371 according to Cave, or 1376 according to the
Chronologia reformata of J. B. Riccioli quoted by Fabricius.
Works
Wharton in Cave and Fabricius give a catalogue of the numerous works of Philotheus.
We give below the titles of the most important of the numerous works of Philotheus, very few of which have been published.
Editions
printed in Latin in the 26th vol. of Bibl. Pat. Max.
a defence of his friend the celebrated Palama, extant in different libraries.
Editions
Latin Editions
Latin, in the 26th vol. of Bibl. Pat. Max.
Greek Editions
Gr. and Lat., by Jac. Pontanus, together with Philippi Solitarii Dioptra, Ingolstadt, 1604, 8vo.;
by Fronto Ducaeus, in the 2d vol. of Auctuar. Patr. Paris, 1624.
Editions
Gr. and Lat. apud Gretser. De Cruce, Ingolstadt, 1616, fol., vol. ii. ]; there is another
Oratio de Cruce, in the same volume, which is attributed by some to our Philotheus.
Gr. and Lat. ibid.
Editions
Gr. and Lat. apud Leunclav. Jus. Gr. Rom. lib. iv.
extant in MS.
&c. &c.
Further Information
Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 513, &c.; Cave,
Hist. Lit. ad an. 1362.
